{"id":1418,"date":"2013-03-10T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2016-04-08T22:15:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T05:15:56","slug":"plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts","title":{"rendered":"Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/opensiddur.org\">Open Siddur Project<\/a>, I was looking for a way that users sharing their work could automatically select between any of the three free\/<em>libre<\/em> compatible licenses offered by the Creative Commons. Well known among free-culture activists, not all Creative Commons licenses are &#8220;free&#8221; according to the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\">definition of free<\/a>.<sup>[<a href=\"#footnote_1_1418\" id=\"identifier_1_1418\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"By free, we here refer to free as in libre: freedom to adopt, adapt and redistribute, and not free as in gratis.\">1<\/a>]<\/sup> Our project only offers users a choice of the three licenses which are compatible with one another and are agreeable with the FSF definition, namely, the Creative Commons Attribution license (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/\">CC-BY<\/a>), the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC-BY-SA<\/a>), and the Creative Commons Zero, a Public Domain dedication (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">CC0<\/a>). I&#8217;ve also added an exception for making a Fair Use declaration, in case the work being posted is under the copyright of someone else.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1418 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\/cc-by-svg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY.svg.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY.svg.png 300w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY.svg-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2128'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution<\/a> (CC BY)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\/cc-by-sa-svg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY-SA.svg.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY-SA.svg.png 300w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY-SA.svg-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2125'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creaitve Commons Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a> (CC BY-SA)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\/cc-0-pd-svg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-0-PD.svg.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-0-PD.svg.png 300w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-0-PD.svg-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2127'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\">Creative Commons Zero<\/a> (CC0), a Public Domain dedication\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\/c-fu-svg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/C-FU.svg.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/C-FU.svg.png 300w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/C-FU.svg-150x50.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2126'>\n\t\t\t\t <a href=\"href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/17\/107\">Fair Use Right declaration<\/a> (17 U.S. Code \u00a7107 &#8211; Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Our site, <a href=\"http:\/\/opensiddur.org\">opensiddur.org<\/a>, currently uses WordPress as our Content Management System.<sup>[<a href=\"#footnote_2_1418\" id=\"identifier_2_1418\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"We&rsquo;ll likely migrate to our own homegrown web application once it is finally built. In the meantime it&rsquo;s WordPress.\">2<\/a>]<\/sup> WordPress has something like a bazillion third-party plugins, which is nice enough but often hard to locate. I went about seeking out a plugin that might suffice. Having the freedom to tweak or improve software is one reason I&#8217;ve enjoyed working with WordPress in the past. In this post, I want to share what improvements I made to the plugin I chose. It might save you the trouble of having to wade through WordPress&#8217;s unwieldly plugin directory.<\/p>\n<p>There are a handful of plugins designed so that wordpress authors and administrators can apply one or any number of Creative Commons licenses to site posts. After testing George Notaras&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g-loaded.eu\/2006\/01\/14\/creative-commons-configurator-wordpress-plugin\/\">Creative Commons Configurator<\/a>, Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine &amp; Brett Mellor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chooseplugin.com\/plugin-info\/license\/\">License<\/a> (a component of the MIT Educational Collaboration Space project), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/openattribute.com\/\">OpenAttribute<\/a> plugin, I ultimately settled on OptimalDevs&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/creative-commons-generator\/developers\/\">Creative Commons Generator<\/a> plugin.<\/p>\n<p>OptimalDevs plugin wasn&#8217;t immediately perfect for my needs, but it was close enough (compared with the other plugins) and with some extra tweaking, I&#8217;ve set it to work at opensiddur.org and here at the Omphalos. You can see an example of my implementation below. If you like it, you can try it for yourself. Right now, I don&#8217;t have it uploaded to WordPress.com &#8212; but you can grab the &#8220;Open Content License Generator&#8221; plugin from my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aharonium\/open-content-license-generator-plugin\">github account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My main issues with OptimalDevs&#8217; plugin were the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it didn&#8217;t yet include an option for choosing the Creative Commons Zero, a Public Domain dedication.<\/li>\n<li>it offered the Non-Commercial and No Derivative options &#8212; Creative Commons licensing options which conflict with the FSF definition of free.<\/li>\n<li>it lacked a user editing option for the language displayed in applying the license.<\/li>\n<li>it lacked a user choice option for the images displayed in applying the license.<\/li>\n<li>the design of the &#8220;official&#8221; Creative Commons licenses are less clear than the straightforward license iconography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All my editing was limited to the ccg-admin.php file and the addition of an images directory with the images above. In the future, I may add options for other Open Content compatible licenses besides the ones authored and maintained by the Creative Commons.<\/p>\n<p>If you <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aharonium\/open-content-license-generator-plugin\">look at the code<\/a> you&#8217;ll notice the displayed text and images are tightly integrated with the code. In my mind, the content and code should be kept separate, so I hope OptimalDevs might take a look at what I&#8217;ve done and consider some improvements.<\/p>\n<p>I want to publicly thank Andy Hernandez Salazar (OptimalDevs) for releasing his plugin and for helping a stranger with his open source software.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_1418\" class=\"footnote\">By free, we here refer to free as in <em>libre<\/em>: freedom to adopt, adapt and redistribute, and not free as in <em>gratis<\/em>.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_1_1418\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_1418\" class=\"footnote\">We&#8217;ll likely migrate to our own homegrown web application once it is finally built. In the meantime it&#8217;s WordPress.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_2_1418\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Open Siddur Project, I was looking for a way that users sharing their work could automatically select between any of the three free\/libre compatible licenses offered by the Creative Commons. Well known among free-culture activists, not all Creative Commons licenses are &#8220;free&#8221; according to the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s definition of free.[1] Our <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\">Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,167],"tags":[52,187,189],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-open-source","tag-wordpress","tag-plugin","tag-freelibre","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Open Content License Generator: A Wordpress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Open Content License Generator: A Wordpress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over at the Open Siddur Project, I was looking for a way that users sharing their work could automatically select between any of the three free\/libre compatible licenses offered by the Creative Commons. Well known among free-culture activists, not all Creative Commons licenses are &#8220;free&#8221; according to the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s definition of free.[1] Our . . . &rarr; Continue reading: Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-10T20:00:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-04-09T05:15:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY.svg.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aharon N. Varady\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@aharonium\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Aharon N. Varady\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Aharon N. Varady\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\"},\"headline\":\"Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-10T20:00:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-09T05:15:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\"},\"wordCount\":641,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\"},\"keywords\":[\"wordpress\",\"plugin\",\"free\/libre\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Hacking\",\"Open Source\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\",\"name\":\"Open Content License Generator: A Wordpress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-10T20:00:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-09T05:15:56+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/contact\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/\",\"name\":\"Aharon's Omphalos\",\"description\":\"spinning navel lint into fine yarn\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5\",\"name\":\"Aharon N. Varady\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg\",\"width\":1061,\"height\":1062,\"caption\":\"Aharon N. Varady\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\"},\"description\":\"Aharon's Omphalos is the hobbit hole of Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project. He is a community planner and environmental educator working to improve stewardship of the Public Domain, be it the physical and natural commons of urban park systems or the creative and cultural commons of libraries and museums. His advocacy for open-source strategies in the Jewish community has been written about in the Atlantic Magazine, the Yiddish Forverts, Tablet, and Haaretz. He is particularly interested in pedagogies for advancing ecological wisdom, developing creative and emotional intelligence, and realizing effective theurgical praxes. He welcomes your comments, personal messages, and kind words. If you find his work helpful to your own or you'd simply like to support him, please consider donating via his Patreon account.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\",\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/author\/admin\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Open Content License Generator: A Wordpress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Open Content License Generator: A Wordpress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos","og_description":"Over at the Open Siddur Project, I was looking for a way that users sharing their work could automatically select between any of the three free\/libre compatible licenses offered by the Creative Commons. Well known among free-culture activists, not all Creative Commons licenses are &#8220;free&#8221; according to the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s definition of free.[1] Our . . . &rarr; Continue reading: Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts","og_url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts","og_site_name":"Aharon&#039;s Omphalos","article_publisher":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium","article_author":"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium","article_published_time":"2013-03-10T20:00:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-04-09T05:15:56+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CC-BY.svg.png","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Aharon N. Varady","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium","twitter_site":"@aharonium","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Aharon N. Varady","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts"},"author":{"name":"Aharon N. Varady","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5"},"headline":"Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts","datePublished":"2013-03-10T20:00:08+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-09T05:15:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts"},"wordCount":641,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5"},"keywords":["wordpress","plugin","free\/libre"],"articleSection":["Hacking","Open Source"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts","url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts","name":"Open Content License Generator: A Wordpress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-03-10T20:00:08+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-09T05:15:56+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2013\/03\/plugin-for-applying-freelibre-compatible-licenses-from-the-creative-commons-to-wordpress-posts#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/contact"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Open Content License Generator: A WordPress Plugin for selecting and displaying an Open Content compatible license for posts"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#website","url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/","name":"Aharon's Omphalos","description":"spinning navel lint into fine yarn","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/995b8f7b388fb460e5204034604079f5","name":"Aharon N. Varady","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Aharon-Varady.jpg","width":1061,"height":1062,"caption":"Aharon N. Varady"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/"},"description":"Aharon's Omphalos is the hobbit hole of Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project. He is a community planner and environmental educator working to improve stewardship of the Public Domain, be it the physical and natural commons of urban park systems or the creative and cultural commons of libraries and museums. His advocacy for open-source strategies in the Jewish community has been written about in the Atlantic Magazine, the Yiddish Forverts, Tablet, and Haaretz. He is particularly interested in pedagogies for advancing ecological wisdom, developing creative and emotional intelligence, and realizing effective theurgical praxes. He welcomes your comments, personal messages, and kind words. If you find his work helpful to your own or you'd simply like to support him, please consider donating via his Patreon account.","sameAs":["https:\/\/aharon.varady.net","http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium","https:\/\/x.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/aharonium"],"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/author\/admin"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgdGV-mS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1673,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2014\/04\/share-what-you-love-%e2%99%a1-a-decision-tree-for-choosing-free-culture-compatible-open-content-licenses-for-cultural-technological-work","url_meta":{"origin":1418,"position":0},"title":"SHARE WHAT YOU LOVE \u2661 A Decision Tree for Choosing Free-Culture Compatible Open Content Licenses for Cultural &#038; Technological Work","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"April 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Since we all live under the current terms of each of our respective nation's copyright laws, simply making something available or accessible over the Internet doesn't make it free under copyright for others to use and improve upon. That's why open content licenses exist: to abrogate the restrictions imposed by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Open Source&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Open Source","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/craft\/open-source"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Licensing-Creative-Works-for-Advancing-A-Creative-Culture-1.0.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Licensing-Creative-Works-for-Advancing-A-Creative-Culture-1.0.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Licensing-Creative-Works-for-Advancing-A-Creative-Culture-1.0.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Licensing-Creative-Works-for-Advancing-A-Creative-Culture-1.0.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Licensing-Creative-Works-for-Advancing-A-Creative-Culture-1.0.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Licensing-Creative-Works-for-Advancing-A-Creative-Culture-1.0.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":571,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2008\/12\/day-of-radiance-a-celebration-of-experimental-music-and-parks-in-philadelphia","url_meta":{"origin":1418,"position":1},"title":"Day of Radiance: A Celebration of Experimental Music and Parks in Philadelphia","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"December 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Although the day, month, and season Brian Eno met Laraaji Nadabrahmananda in Philadelphia's New York's Washington Square Park in 1979 is unknown, their meeting led directly to an important album, Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (1980). In commemoration of this creative encounter, the Philadelphia Ambient Consortium is at the beginning\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/art\/music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/day_of_radiance-washington_square_park.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/day_of_radiance-washington_square_park.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/day_of_radiance-washington_square_park.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/day_of_radiance-washington_square_park.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/day_of_radiance-washington_square_park.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/day_of_radiance-washington_square_park.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1791,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2014\/11\/mechon-hadar-is-open","url_meta":{"origin":1418,"position":2},"title":"Mechon Hadar is Open","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"November 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"From 2009-2010, I was a fellow of Yeshivat Hadar in the pilot year of its first year-long program of study. A couple months ago, Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, Dean of Students at Yeshivat Hadar, asked me if I would consider reviewing Mechon Hadar's new website. At the Hadar reunion earlier this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Judaica&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Judaica","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/yiddishkeit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hadar.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3099,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2020\/08\/biden-harris-2020","url_meta":{"origin":1418,"position":3},"title":"Biden\/Harris! 2020 \u05d1\u05bc\ufb1f\u05d3\u05df\/\u05d4\u05e2\u05e8\u05d9\u05e1","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"August 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A political logo for the Biden\/Harris 2020 campaign in the US General Election, using Yiddish orthography.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/adventure\/politics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Harris-Biden-2020-ANV.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Harris-Biden-2020-ANV.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Harris-Biden-2020-ANV.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Harris-Biden-2020-ANV.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3443,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2024\/03\/biden-harris-2024","url_meta":{"origin":1418,"position":4},"title":"Biden\/Harris! 2024 \u05d1\u05bc\ufb1f\u05d3\u05df\/\u05d4\u05e2\u05e8\u05d9\u05e1","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"March 16, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A political logo for the Biden\/Harris 2024 campaign in the US General Election, using Yiddish orthography.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/adventure\/politics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Harris-Biden-2024-ANV-featured-image.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Harris-Biden-2024-ANV-featured-image.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Harris-Biden-2024-ANV-featured-image.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Harris-Biden-2024-ANV-featured-image.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2450,"url":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2016\/10\/simplified-summary-public-domain-status-creative-works-us-copyright-law-excluding-audio-works","url_meta":{"origin":1418,"position":5},"title":"A Simplified Summary of Public Domain Status for Creative Works in US Copyright Law (excluding audio works)","author":"Aharon N. Varady","date":"October 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Among the many things I do in my work for the Open Siddur Project, I create digital copies of works in the Public Domain. These copies then serve as the basis for individuals and groups to convert the images of prayers and related content into machine-readable (copyable, pasteable, searchable) text.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Judaica&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Judaica","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/category\/yiddishkeit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Simplified-Summary-of-Public-Domain-Status-for-Creative-Works-in-US-Copyright-Law-excluding-audio-works-v2.1-Aharon-Varady-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Simplified-Summary-of-Public-Domain-Status-for-Creative-Works-in-US-Copyright-Law-excluding-audio-works-v2.1-Aharon-Varady-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Simplified-Summary-of-Public-Domain-Status-for-Creative-Works-in-US-Copyright-Law-excluding-audio-works-v2.1-Aharon-Varady-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/A-Simplified-Summary-of-Public-Domain-Status-for-Creative-Works-in-US-Copyright-Law-excluding-audio-works-v2.1-Aharon-Varady-CC-BY-SA.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}